Bill Text: MI SB1154 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Liquor; manufacturer; limitations on sale of beer for on-premises consumption on licensed brewery premises; modify. Amends sec. 411 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1411). TIE BAR WITH: SB 1155'18, SB 1156'18, SB 1159'18, SB 1160'18, SB 1161'18, SB 1164'18, SB 1165'18, SB 1166'18
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - Assigned Pa 403'18 With Immediate Effect [SB1154 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB1154-Enrolled.html
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Rocca
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1154
AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics; to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of activities regulated under this act and the disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies regarding violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 411 (MCL 436.1411), as amended by 2014 PA 44.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 411. (1) Subject to the requirements of this section and section 537, a brewer or micro brewer may sell beer it manufactured for consumption on or off the premises at an approved tasting room under section 536 if the tasting room is located on licensed brewery premises where the brewer or micro brewer manufactures.
(2) The sale of beer under subsection (1) is subject to all of the following limitations:
(a) A brewer that is not licensed as a micro brewer may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at not more than 2 approved tasting rooms in this state.
(b) A licensed micro brewer that produces in total fewer than 30,000 barrels of beer per year may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at any of its approved tasting rooms in this state.
(c) A licensed micro brewer that produces in total 30,000 barrels of beer or more per year may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at not more than 3 approved tasting rooms in this state.
(3) Subject to the limitations in subsection (2), if a brewer or micro brewer has more than 1 licensed brewery premises, that brewer or micro brewer may sell beer that it has produced at 1 licensed brewery premises at an approved tasting room located on any of its other licensed brewery premises if 1 of the following requirements is met:
(a) The licensed brewery premises that receives the beer, on which the approved tasting room is located, has an installed and functional multivessel system capable of producing and fermenting at least 3 barrels of wort in a single batch.
(b) The licensed brewery premises that receives the beer, on which the approved tasting room is located, produces a volume of beer equivalent to 50% of the volume of beer sold to consumers at that tasting room.
(c) The licensed brewery premises that receives the beer, on which the approved tasting room is located, submitted an application for licensure at that location before October 1, 2018.
(d) The licensed brewery premises that receives the beer, on which the approved tasting room is located, is a location that was approved by the commission as a wine tasting room under section 537(4) before October 1, 2018 for which an application was received after October 1, 2018 to transfer the wine tasting room to the same person who is applying for a micro brewer license at this location. The application for licensure as a micro brewer at this location must have been submitted before January 30, 2019 and the wine tasting room location must be actively operated at the time the micro brewer license is issued.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 1155.
(b) Senate Bill No. 1156.
(c) Senate Bill No. 1159.
(d) Senate Bill No. 1160.
(e) Senate Bill No. 1161.
(f) Senate Bill No. 1164.
(g) Senate Bill No. 1165.
(h) Senate Bill No. 1166.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
